The Navy pilots, particularly the Marines, will come get you out of trouble no matter what is going on.
That seems to be the view from the ground.
Don't say that to the Warthog jocks. They'll gladly shake hands with you with their wings tips after they "BRRRRRRT" the tanks that were giving you trouble. I do know that back in the days of SAC the BUFF pilots would give a person a pretty good haircut if that person was on one of the training routes.
“The Air Force pilots are the ones that don’t want even sand scratches on their pretty planes. ... The Navy pilots, particularly the Marines, will come get you out of trouble no matter what is going on.
That seems to be the view from the ground.”
This is true only from the worm’s-eye view of someone stuck on the ground.
Infantry is not the “final answer.” Truth be told, ground troops contribute less to the fight in terms of lives risked, munitions carried, and enemy forces negated, compared to any other “system.”
It was not even true 240 years ago: during the American War of Independence, the Continental Army did not beat the British toe-to-toe, man-to-man; it simply avoided one disaster after another until the French intervened, using their own sea power to block Britain’s Royal Navy from supporting Charles, Lord Cornwallis.
Military endeavor has advanced somewhat beyond the individual footsolider so beloved of the American public.